How do you get into Potions Speakeasy?
We have not confirmed it. Potions Speakeasy is in the directory because it calls itself a speakeasy, and that is the whole of what we can stand behind about its door.
Drinks of the era
We have not seen this venue’s own list, so what follows is the period rather than the bar: Sidecar, Boulevardier, and Vieux Carré are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Potions Speakeasy sits
Potions Speakeasy is in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the Orleans Parish, in the Deep South of the United States.
Our directory currently lists five speakeasies and hidden bars in New Orleans. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in New Orleans.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Potions Speakeasy are The Secret Lounge & Nightclub, about 250 m away, Melange Speakeasy Bar, about 850 m away, and The Original Nite Cap, about 1.1 km away.
Louisiana holds 17 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Louisiana speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Louisiana
Louisiana came under national prohibition on 17 January 1920, when the Eighteenth Amendment took effect and the Volstead Act defined an intoxicating beverage as anything above one half of one per cent alcohol — a threshold strict enough to close breweries that had expected to survive.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Louisiana.
What the newspapers recorded in New Orleans
Searching the Library of Congress run of Louisiana newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from New Orleans:
- The herald, October 19, 1922 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Potions Speakeasy by phone on (504) 717-3057, through its own website, and on Facebook and Instagram.
The address is 733 Bourbon St, New Orleans, LA 70116. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Potions Speakeasy we hold street address, telephone number, official website, and social accounts. We do not yet hold opening hours, a published drinks list, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because its own name calls it a speakeasy and the map tags on the record mark it a cocktail bar.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.